Andi is annoyed by all this not having alts she's doing. Bella comes in singlet, so maybe she does too. They should look. C'monnnn. It's not, like, urgent or anything, but she thinks she is pretty neat and there should be more of her.
"Doubt it. All I got was the teleport, Elspeth's fast but she's not that fast, so I haven't tried it."
"It also wouldn't surprise me if Hex could come up with something to make food consumption more convenient!"
"Might also be worth paying a longer term precog to check what happens if lots of people relocate to your dimension - do any of them eclipse - and what it does for control training to leave the dimensional neighborhood -"
"- yes, if people can do control training in the form of a couple years abroad that'd be huge, wow."
"The multiverse'd be happy to have them - actually, I bet Mîr'd be best equipped for it, human population from around the same time period and fairly arbitrary magic."
"I bet if nothing else Patalon can be wished up into a particularly efficient virtuality site or something."
"And we can get some more Fëanors on persistent psionic effects, and - if we rain immortality down on more people will that encourage mages to pick it up or make them decide they'll be priced out of the market -"
"Mages don't do immortality qua immortality, they do de-aging. I'm not sure what the market effect would be but they'd probably have some takers for cosmetic reasons still..."
"Vanda Nossëo'll send you a resource list and you can decide what to do with it."
Maitimë will be tempted to do nothing much both because she expects that if this isn't real she will be nudged into being more interesting and because she will expect she can get a longer reprieve by testing its limits less. Conditional on it being real she would prefer to be nudged into doing things.
But how does reporting to her that Butterfly received Cube as a present do that.
Okay.
Isabella explains to Maitimë's family where she vanished to and apologizes for not leaving a note. She sits with Boots and her sleeping Maitimë to find out what all the associations are; Boots can't necessarily find all of them by description alone but she can find about half, and Isabella can tell which ones, so that'll cut down on how long Maitimë will have to be awake-and-not-yet-all-fixed -
- and then when Boots is out of things that can be done with a sleeping patient, Boots wakes her up.
...there are two of Isabella and she doesn't know what the game is there - guess which one is real? But neither would be real - or maybe Maira found a way to insert herself into the dreams - one of the Isabellas has long hair maybe Maitimë gets to choose the real Isabella or a sub Isabella that'd seem like a game that would entertain Maira - the last hallucination was so good, the last hallucination had the premise she could die, this one is practically guaranteed not to have such a lovely premise -
"Hi lovely," says Standard Issue Isabella. (Boots was able to find that one, she can call her that again without getting a flinch -) "This is an alternate universe version of me with different more freeform mental powers and an actual therapy license. You did say I could wake you up if I could fix it - she's at the limit of what she can do while you're asleep."